Chrome: Stars is Google's new take on bookmarking, and the features it promises—adding notes, shared folders, and filters for automatic categorization—look pretty awesome.

Update: Looks like they pulled the extension from the web store. Sorry folks! Guess we'll have to wait until it's ready.

You can download the Chrome extension at the link below to start bookmarking web pages and access them in the web interface, but in its current form, Stars is still a little wonky (which is why, I guess, they thank you for dogfooding it if you install now).

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After installing the extension, you'll see a yellow star button in the omnibox. Click that and you can add it to your bookmarks, along with a note and a title. Stars pulls in all your bookmarks into a visual grid, and you can drag-and-drop items into folders.

When you share a folder, you make it public and then can send someone the link for access to your saved sites.

And, as befitting a Google service, you can search your Star items and filter by images, web pages, and videos.

I haven't seen the promised auto-categorization, other filters, and site suggestions yet, but Google's apparently working on these.

Still, it looks like a much better bookmarking tool than the one we have now in Chrome.